Lifting device.



F. BUTLER.

LIFTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION'HLED SEPT. 9. 1915.

Patented July 18,1916.

FRANK BUTLER, 0.1 OXNARD, CALIFORNIA.

LIFTING DEVIGE.

Application filed September 9, 1915.

To all whom it m o concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Oxnard, in the county of Ventura and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Lifting Device, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact descrlption.

h y invention relates to a device for lifting pans, plates and other utensils and articles in camp, lifting filled milk pans or heavy articles such as a nail keg. The lift ing and carrying of filled milk pans, for 1nstance, requires the greatest steadiness to prevent the spilling of the milk. In my device members are provided so arranged as to properly balance the load, there being a pair of hook members at one side and an opposed single member, and I provide on the member having the pair of hooks, a handle, and on the single hook member, a lever, being so formed and arranged that the device may be manipulated with the digits of one hand for engaging and disengaging the hook members for the article to be lifted and for so disposing the hook members on the article to be lifted that the article may be carried perfectly level and with great steadiness. At the same time the elements are embodied in a. device of simple, cheap and strong construction, which will be more particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a lifting device embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevation; and Fig. 3 is a side eleva- 'tion on a smaller scale indicating the manshank 1.3, terminates in a hook 14, disposed oppositely to the hooks 12. At the upper Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Serial No. 49,765.

The described construction permits of the single shank being swung toward or from the pair of shanks. In order to facilitate the relative movements of the respective shanks, I form a lever member 17, on the single shank at its juncture with the loop thereof, for which purpose the wire from which the shank 13, is formed, is bent to form the loop with its cross bar 15', and the free end is bent outwardly and returned on itself to form the lever 17 in the form of a loop. The lever 17 is disposed in an outward direction at an angle to the shank 13.

The upper portions 10*, of the shanks 10, between the handle bar 11, and the hinge eyes 16, are disposed at an inclination to the remainder of the shanks 10.

In use, the handle 11 is grasped with the fingers of one hand and the thumb of the same hand is engaged with the lever 17, to swing the hooks apart sufliciently to grasp a pan or other article conventionally indicated at A in. Fig. 3. With the lifting device engaged with the article to be lifted, the pen tions 10, of the shanks l0, and the lever 17, will be disposed approximately vertical and the handle will be positioned above the center of the load, the lever and the handle being always in convenient position for their ready manipulation by the digits of the one hand. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The herein described lifting device formed of two members, one member being U shaped and including a pair of spaced shanks, joined at the top by an integral bar constituting a handle and the shanks terminating at the lower ends in gripping hooks, the other member presenting a single shank, disposed opposite to and approximately equidistant from the pair of shanks, said single shank terminating at its lower end in a hook disposed oppositely to the hooks of the pair of shanks, the said single shank tioned relative to the handle for both to be 1e having an integral transverse loop eXtendengaged by the digits of one hand.

ing in opposite directions from said shank, In testimony whereof I have signed my the shanks of the pair being bent to form name to this specification in the presence of hinge eyes embracing the said loop near its two subscribing Witnesses.

ends below the said handle, and there being FRANK BUTLER. at the juncture of the loop and single shank, l Vitnesses:

an outwardly projecting lever member inte- F RANK l/VASSERMAN,

gral With said shank and loop and posi- H. P. SPEER.

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